Julia Child would also be in favor of doing mise en place--measuring out your ingredients before you start doing anything. Personally, and I say this as someon

Julia Child would also be in favor of doing mise en place--measuring out your ingredients before you start doing anything. Personally, and I say this as someone who has been trained to do recipe editing, I find this tabular system to be not entirely clear. Consider the first example--the instruction to mix is applied to several ingredients at least twice. The instruction to 'fold in' seems to apply to all the ingredients at once, which makes no sense. Normally, you'd mix the dry ingredients together first. Also, in this case, you'd probably want to whisk the eggs and sugar together first so the sugar starts to dissolve. It also doesn't give you a clue as to what 'done' means.